Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glimpses of the life conditions of the different classes, and brief accounts of various difficulties of the new program. While often disjointed and confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene and pictorial power...
...this spring. Burrowing into the Badlands of Potwar, the party found five jawbones of apes, representing three new classifications, two of which more closely resemble homo sapiens than any other fossil apes ever discovered.* One genus they named Ramapithecns in honor of Rama, stalwart, uxorious hero of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Another they christened Sitgriva-pitkeens, after Sugriva, king of the monkeys who helped Rama get his wife back from the demon-king of Ceylon. The third they named Bramapithecus for the Hindu God Brahma...
...plot is manifold. Its principal current centers about the life and emotions of a sensitive, but in the main, ordinary man, with the life of a sample -- an ineffectual sample -- of humanity. Subsidiary to the development of this idea are three minor threads: a choral rendition of the epic of the Argonauts, obviously designed to emphasize the ultimate continuity of the chief functions of life: a train of satirically treated episodes of everyday life, and the intermittent presentation of personifications of those influences which have played a major part in forming the character of the hero. This...
...created a new title, "Hero of the Soviet Union," and made them all Heroes. To the 102 who had been rescued he awarded the Order of the Red Star and half a year's pay. Then he ordered a monument in Moscow to immortalize the great Soviet epic...
GILGAMESH - William Ellery Leonard - Viking ($2). Free-verse rendition of the oldest written epic (c. 2,000 B.C.) by the University of Wisconsin's famed eccentric poet-professor...